{"id":119,"date":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/?p=119"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:04:36","slug":"home-business-kung-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/home-business-kung-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Business Kung Fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kung Fu \u2013 Why Talk About It Here?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/LarryRivera\/?attachment_id=3925\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3925 aligncenter\" alt=\"Kung Fu\" src=\"\/LarryRivera\/files\/2013\/06\/wing.png\" width=\"565\" height=\"565\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just realized that there are many kung fu practitioners around the world. Personally I teach and train in Wing Chun, Tai Chi and Chi\u2019na.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been doing kung fu for 18 years. It has been a long journey and to be honest it hasn\u2019t been a cheap one.<\/p>\n<p>Kung fu lessons are expensive for many years I had to struggle to scrape enough money together to constantly go to my own lessons.<\/p>\n<p>I actually started teaching martial arts because I thought it would be a great way to offset the cost of my own training.<\/p>\n<p>Once I started teaching full time though, I quickly realized how hard it would be to keep earning a good income. Just like all things people come and go all the time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny to me because I can make a lot of comparisons to my kung fu business and my online business.<\/p>\n<h2>Knowing Who Will And Who Won\u2019t \u2013 Weeding Out Kung Fu Folly<\/h2>\n<p>Because I have had lot\u2019s of people come into my martial art school to take lessons over the years, I started to see common traits among people who wouldn\u2019t achieve their goals.<\/p>\n<p>These same traits are also common in people who start a home business and fail. Pay attention to these traits, knowing them can help you discern who to spend time with and who are tire \u2013 kickers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People who are in trouble of failing at everything all the time<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When it get\u2019s hard the tire \u2013 kicker will just give up<\/li>\n<li>Tire \u2013 kickers often say one thing and do another<\/li>\n<li>Tire \u2013 kickers are afraid to take risk<\/li>\n<li>Tire \u2013 kickers like to blame other people for all their problems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Understanding that tire \u2013 kickers drain your energy you should quickly remove them out of your life.<\/p>\n<p>The only way for a tire \u2013 kicker to change their situation is when they decide enough is enough and look in the mirror and realize they are their own worst enemy. There is nothing you can do to help them.<\/p>\n<h3>Kung Fu Final Thought \u2013 Stay The Course<\/h3>\n<p>Success is not a race, you will get to where you are going, when you get there not a moment sooner. In fact if you try and rush, you will quickly find yourself in quick sand.<\/p>\n<p>Have patience, be honest, stay focused and you will find your purpose.. Everyone does!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kung Fu \u2013 Why Talk About It Here? I just realized that there are many kung fu practitioners around the world. Personally I teach and train in Wing Chun, Tai Chi and Chi\u2019na. I\u2019ve been doing kung fu for 18 years. It has been a long journey and to be honest it hasn\u2019t been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[4,154],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-business-kung-fu","tag-home-business","tag-kung-fu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/larryrivera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}